First: Thank you for the nice comments!

Tomas wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 8:00am:


Yes, that's the one. But it may take some time until I will release the tutorial as this sling opened a door for me into a new world of techniques. I'm trying out several different things with colours, shaping and so on. The technique is not related to finger weaving.

Camo-sling wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 9:14am:


I neither like release knots and I only make them for special slings. Gripping the braid or a flat tab gives me a much better feeling for the release. I appended a photo of the tab, so that you can see how it was made. The scale is in cm, the width of the tab is 1 cm, the width of the string 3 mm. I expect that this is the point where the sling will break first as the strings at the side are a bit exposed. But we will see...
About the pattern: The stripe in the middle serves as joint as it bends easier in one direction. What you actually see in the above photos is not the side of the stone but the back side of the pouch. Of further importance is also how dense you work (flexibility of the pouch). The rest of the pattern is aesthetics.

I really like that sling Northwoodsslinger, did you weave it on a loom or by hand?
Teg- I look forward to seeing that tutorial:) how do you find this technique to weaving? Is it more time consuming?

Tomas wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 6:46pm:

Thanks!

I rigged up a makeshift weaving board (if that' the correct term) out of cardboard and two screws. Very crude, but it works really well.

squirrelslinger wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 9:53pm:

I feel like I have no control when I weave that way. It ends up sideways haha

There's a lot of beautiful slings being made by relatively new slingers. It's obvious that a lot of time, effort and thought have gone into their creation.  
I felt like I needed a new sling, but didn't want to invest much time or thought. It ain't pretty, but  I made it in less than 20 minutes and works well, easy to stuff in a pocket and I don't care if it gets wet and muddy. I like it 

Here is my current sling, I guess it is technically 3.0. It is just left over denim from jeans and I used the butterfly, boat template.
owldraco

My slings used the most-





Loaded with lighter stone. The stone in the bottom of the pics goes with the deer-hide slings, most of the pieces weight little(around 2 oz) because those are light slings with light stone for accuracy and beginning slingers.
The rockman is almost worn out, look at the release tassel.
The green and black with leather pouch sling is from timu. I haven't used it much.
The stone leaded into the rockman weighs about 7 oz and is potatoe shaped.
The stone loaded into Timu's sling weighs a little less... it is some super heavy rock IMO... ive got no idea what it is.
The balaric is jute loaded with clay bicones.
The ammo at the top is literally dirt.
I just went outside, dug down a foot, dug up about 5 pounds of material, took it on the deck, then rolled it up. No screening, there is still some lumps of mulch etc in it... but they still sling good.